SOURCE: "American Odyssey," in The New York Times Book Review, July 13, 1997, p. 14.
[In the following review, Polk considers numerous secondary elements of Cold Mountain, but notes that "however strongly the side issues resonate, they are never allowed to interfere with the main thrust of the plot. The author's focus is always on Ada and Inman."]
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